App Allows Citizens To Track Campaign Cash Sources

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A non-partisan research organization has released a free app for iOS and Android to allow citizens to see who’s funding presidential candidates and their affiliated super PACs.

MapLight‘s Politicash 2012 app includes an auto-tweet feature that alerts candidates that users are keeping tabs on their fundraising. A “Shake” feature, shows a random sample of company, individual, and PAC contributors to each candidate.

The app’s features include:

Head to head comparison of total contributions to Obama and Romney, including a fundraising breakdown by super PAC versus campaign committee

Graphs tracking money raised and spent by each candidate over time

The top 5 contributors overall

Biggest contributors of the latest week of available records from the FEC

Contribution data includes all available contributions to candidates from the Federal Election Commission as of Oct. 28.